San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-04-25

KANSAS is a blooming commonwealth
for the ladies. They not only vote at the
polls In all elections and hold Office, but
by recent decision Ofthe supreme court
need not take their husbands names
after marriage unless they want TO.
This may be all serene IN the case OF the
parties OF tue first part, bus won't IL
mix things little when II comes 70
naming tue kidsg
THERE Ia some fool talk Of making
Alaska a penal colony for the United
States. This country wants no penal
colony. 1t simply needs TO cease be-
coming penal colony for old Europe,
and TO undertake some humanlzed
methods of prison reform, and establish
well-oonducted reform schools. Her
penal colony would die out for lack Of
| feeders under these conditions.
PULLMAN's vestibuled train is attract
ing considerable notice, but not near SO
much attention as the enormous charges
kept up on his sleeper coaches. There
| ia no sign of reduction in these charges
all these years, while regular fares nave
| fallen 33t per cent. since their
| introduction. Illinois proposes TO
tackle the monopoly in her legislature,
and compel reduction 20 decent
| figures.
The New York Sun sees no serene SKY
| for Cleveland. No phase OF the sltna-
ton can be presented in which the sun
does not see disaster to the democracy,
arising from Cleveland's connection WIN
the party. Whether Ii be tariff reform,
labor vote, civil service, no matter
what-the Sun reads only democratic
disaster in Cleveland's connection with
the party, as witness the following: III
seems to be the desire Of the labor party
to smash the democracy before smashing
the republicans. There Is no necessity
that the democrats should help them In
that amiable desire. If man WHO
couldn't get any of the labor vote, ana
who would lose much of the normal
democratic vote is wanted, Mr.. Cleye-
land is the man."
WHEN you get at the true inwardness
Of old mother earth, she Ia truly aston
ishing. The historic age seems very
silent concerning some OF her digestive
operations. A BIRDS skeleton, and some
bits of burned wood, were recently found
while boring an artesiaD well. As the
historic period, according TO Mosaic
chronology, covers one half the age OF
the "old mother" one is nightly puZ-
Zled to reconcile such find as this with
the very recent age assigned to the
worlds habItableness in that chronology.
Artesian well bOrers must cease turn
log up such evidences ofantiquity or the
chrOnOlOgists will have to lengthen out
that 1897 years.
AT the meeting recently held In Gin
cinnati, of the National Protective AS
ISOLATION of Distillers and wholesale
Liquor Dealers, the question OF prOhiDl-
ton in Texas came up. The policy OF
he association, as announced by the
president, was as follows: I'VE shalt adj
vOcate the imposition of such license aS
viii keep the retail business In the
hands OF re- peOtable men, and urge the
strict enforcement of all police regula
lions against low dives" This Is the
line on which the LIGHT has been con-
Quoting its fight ever since the prohlbl-
tiOn amendment was ordered submitted
by the legislature.
As the democracy seem inclined to
take to themselves so much comfort over
the recent republican reverse in Rhode
Island, and predicate upon that precarl-
Gus issue triumphant carrying OF the
New England states in 1888, it would be
RS well for them to master the facts Of
that defeat and prepare for the ineYi-
table. The result OF the recent Rhode
Island election is no criterion by which
70 predicate her vote in 1888. There
were no national issues involved In this
election. There was a family quarrel
among the republicans in that state and
the democracy, as was natural, ana very
usual, took advantage of ii and elected
their candidate. There is not one parti-
Gle of comfort for the democracy IN that
election. Not one ray of hope for 1883.